The Hawaiian gazette., 1887-09-27

remote period would be undoubtedly
in the present interests of the coun-
try.
The derision poured upon Hawaiian
affairs day after day and month after
month by the foreign press immedi-
ately after the close Of last Legisla-
ture is but too fresh in the minds of
the people of these Islands. Wher-
ever a column in a foreign news
paper appeared headed Hawaiian
Affairs" or anything relating thereto,
wit, sarcasm and ridicnle were en-
listed, and the residents of Hawaii
were obliged, whether they liked it
or not, to submit to the jibes and
jeers that followed, with the doubtful
source of consolation that the worst
element in such writings was their
substantial truthfulness. It must be
confessed that these utterances of
foreign papers were rather annoying.
In fact the illusions of the kind re-
ferred to that reached us were suffici
ent in number and quantity to fill
bigger volume than Jarves' history.
Considerable curiosity will now be
felt to see what the foreign press has
to say to the news carried hence by
the "City of Sydney" on the Goth.
The San Francisco Chronicle will, of
course, credit the reform victory at
the polls to military coercion. We
shall probably learn from that paper
that the 200 or so of military volun-
teers in Honolulu managed to spread
themselves over the eight islands of
the group to carry the elections. So
far as that goes, if the fiction of the
Imagination of the Chronicles bril-
liant correspondent had been alb
solute fact, we do not know
that it would detract very much
from the prestige of the event. 1t
is generally believed to be histori-
cal fact that revolutions in which
power was wrested from absolutism
and transferred to the people have
generally been consummated by the
aid of military force. It is even be-
lieved that the independence of the
United States and the emancipation
of the slaves in the South were
achieved by armed battalions, more
than by paper ballots. If these are
historical truths, the San Francisco
Chronicle and all journals of its stripe
are quite welcome to whatever com
fort they can derive from the mill
tary of the Hawaiian Islands, while
the people of these Islands can we'll
afford to laugh heartily at the howl
ings of the defunct oligarchy lust
swept away. Reform is fixed fact,
and while it has been carried in
manner satisfactory to the people
most intimately concerned, we cannot
see what reasonable objections can be
urged against it by outside specta-
tors.
The fact remains that, considering !
the endless number of nationalities
into which the population is broken
up and the weakness of the popula-
ton in respect to number, the people
of these Islands can hold up their I
faces before the most advanced com
munities in the civilized world and
claim that our system of government
is little, if anything, behind the best
developed systems which the expert
ence of centuries has yet developed.
The news we sent abroad the other
day cannot but have the effect of
inspiring confidence in the future of
this Kingdom. 1t is generally ac-
cepted axiom that people who respect
themselves are respected by others,
and the voters of Hawaii, both native
and foreign, have shown in the most
manner that they dorespect
themselves and are ambitious of the
appreciation of all whose good opinion
is worth the seeking They have
shown that this little insular King
dom is inhabited to at least con
trolling extent by class of people of
like mould and material with those
out of which free, Independent and
respected political organizations are
formed.
The news that the names of the
political jockeys that rode rough-shod
over the Hawaiian taxpayer year
ago have been wiped off the record,
ought of itself to be sufficient qua
'antee to other and greater nations
hat the Hawaiian electors know the t
'ules of the road we'll enough to be
lble henceforth to drive their own